Overview
The purpose of this post is to support the Award Management team in the planning, securing and managing of both development and humanitarian awards. The position involves supporting award information management and compliance with systems and processes.
Tasks Summary
- Support the team to adhere to all award management obligations internally and externally.
- Coordinate and lead the preparation of high-quality, donor-ready reports.
- Proactively engage with budget holders, program teams, and partners to obtain timely, accurate narrative and financial inputs.
- Support award negotiations, amendments, and modifications.
- Ensure robust compliance across the full award lifecycle.
- Maintain functional ownership of the Awards Management System (AMS).
- Act as a technical resource on donor compliance requirements.
- Proactively identify, assess, and escalate compliance risks.
- Coordinate award compliance readiness checks ahead of audits, donor reviews, or internal assurance exercises.
- Lead regular financial monitoring and variance analysis for assigned awards.
- Ensure award budgets, donor budget lines, and revisions are accurately reflected in AMS.
- Contribute to the development, refinement, and use of analytical tools, dashboards, and monitoring frameworks.
- Support in maintaining an early-warning alert mechanism.
- Support the Head of Awards Management in portfolio-level reviews.
- Periodically review and optimize end-to-end awards workflows.
- Coordinate and contribute to award lifecycle planning and review exercises.
- Maintain and continuously improve internal awards trackers and monitoring tools.
Experience Requirements
- Experience working in a related role for at least 5 years.
- Experience managing grants, contracts & sub agreements with knowledge of major funders’ guidelines for 5 years period.
- Relevant experience managing donor funded projects within an International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGOs) particularly those addressing human and children’s rights programming and partnership / localisation contexts.
- Demonstrated experience working with implementing partners, including coordination of sub-awards/sub-grants, compliance documentation and follow-up on donor and Save the Children International (SCI) requirements.
- Proven ability to coordinate effectively across functions (Programmes, Finance, PDQ, MEAL, Operations, Partnerships and relevant functions) to meet donor requirements, deadlines and quality standards.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in multicultural and international environments with strong cultural awareness and sensitivity.
- Strong planning, prioritisation and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple awards, competing deadlines and periods of peak workload.
Qualification Requirements
- Professional qualification in Business, international development, business administration, finance and/or experience working in a related role.
- University degree in international development, business administration, finance and/or experience working in a related role.
